Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. The MIT Press, March 2006. hardcover & paperback.

Does WoW Change Everything?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

“Does WoW Change Everything?: How a PvP Server, Multinational Playerbase, and Surveillance Mod Scene Caused Me Pause,” Games & Culture, v. 1 n. 4, October 2006. [PDF] Note: An abbreviated version of this article (does not include age & nationality discussion) appears in in J. Walker and H. Corneliussen (eds.) Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: [...]

Power Gamers Just Want To Have Fun?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

“Power Gamers Just Want To Have Fun?: Instrumental Play In A MMOG,” (revised Danish translation) in I. Engholm & L. Klastrup (eds.), Digitale Verdener – de nye mediers æstetik og design, Denmark: Gyldendal, 2004. Copy unavailable. Please refer to my book Play Between Worlds for the most up to date version of the argument. Note: [...]